Kamis, 25 Maret 2010

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Senate will have to return health bill to House (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 12:59 AM PDT

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., at podium, gestures during a health care reform news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 24, 2010. From left are, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., and Reid. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP - Senate Republicans learned early Thursday that they will be able to kill language in a measure altering President Barack Obama's newly enacted health care overhaul, meaning the bill will have to return to the House for final congressional approval.

Dems deal with threats over health care support (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 12:10 AM PDT

This picture provided on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 by the Monroe County Democratic Committee in Rochester, N.Y. shows damage to their office after a glass door was struck with a brick with a note reading 'Exremism in Defense of Liberty Is no Vice' sometime from late Saturday, March 20, 2010 or Sunday, March 21, 2010. Bricks have been hurled through Democrats' windows, a propane line was cut at the home of a congressman's brother and lawmakers who voted for a federal health care bill have received phone threats in the days before and after passage of the sweeping legislation. (AP Photo/Monroe County Democratic Committee)AP - Democratic Congress members are getting lessons from the FBI on how to handle threats such as several directed at their colleagues, including bricks hurled through windows and menacing obscenity-laced phone messages left for those who supported sweeping federal health care legislation.

Treaty to cut US-Russia nukes; signing in 2 weeks (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 12:12 AM PDT

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L) shakes hands with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (R) in Moscow on Thursday. Clinton visited Russia in a bid to accelerate progress towards a new accord between the Cold War foes to drastically reduce their nuclear arsenals.(AFP/Yuri Kadobnov)AP - The U.S. and Russia will drastically reduce their nuclear arsenals under a historic treaty to be signed next month.

Lengthy talks fail to resolve US-Israeli tensions (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 12:50 AM PDT

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, Ehud Barak, leave the West Wing after a meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House in Washington Tuesday, March 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - A last-ditch effort to heal the deep dispute between two longtime allies failed when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the United States' main Mideast envoy were unable to resolve a rift over new Israeli housing in east Jerusalem.

AP sources: Birthday cake awaited suicide bomber (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 12:08 AM PDT

FILE - This undated file image provided Friday, Jan. 8, 2009 by Jordan's Al-Ghad newspaper, purports to show Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, the suspected Jordanian double agent who killed seven CIA officers in Afghanistan on Dec. 30, 2009. The Arabic news station Al-Jazeera has broadcast a posthumous video Saturday Jan. 9, 2010 showing the Jordanian doctor who killed seven CIA employees in Afghanistan calling for revenge attacks inside and outside the United States. (AP Photo/Al-Ghad, ho, File)AP - CIA officers in Afghanistan were so eager to meet the spy they believed would help them crack al-Qaida's leadership they planned a birthday celebration for his visit in December, current and former U.S. officials said.

Discharging gays to draw more scrutiny in military (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 12:09 AM PDT

Defense Secretary Robert Gates testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 24, 2010, before a House Defense subcommittee hearing on the Defense Department's budget overview. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - Discharging a gay person for violating the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy will draw unprecedented scrutiny under new orders from Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who is already pushing to repeal the ban on gays serving openly in the U.S. military.

Katherine Heigl checks out of `Grey's Anatomy' (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 10:02 PM PDT

In this Thursday, March 18, 2010 photo, actress Katherine Heigl, winner of the Female Star of the Year Award, poses for photographers backstage at the ShoWest Final Night Talent Awards in Las Vegas. Katherine Heigl is done with 'Grey's Anatomy' after six seasons. ABC said Wednesday that Heigl's final appearance in the medical drama aired Jan. 21, four months before the show's season finale in May. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)AP - Katherine Heigl (HY'-guhl) is done with "Grey's Anatomy" after six seasons.

SoCal teacher arrested in alleged drunken teaching (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 09:39 PM PDT

This booking photo provided by the Riverside County Sheriff's Department shows teacher, Tonya Neff, who was arrested Tuesday March 23, 2010 for allegedly teaching while drunk at Toro Canyon Middle School. (AP Photo/Riverside County Sheriff's Department)AP - A Southern California school teacher has been arrested for allegedly teaching while drunk.

Bryant's 24 points pull Lakers over Spurs (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 09:43 PM PDT

Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant (24) leaves San Antonio Spurs' Manu Ginobili, of Argentina, off balance as Bryant drives with the ball during the third quarter of an NBA basketball game, Wednesday, March 24, 2010, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)AP - Kobe Bryant scored 24 points and the Los Angeles Lakers extended their winning streak to seven games with a 92-83 victory over the San Antonio Spurs on Wednesday night.

Calif. voters to decide whether to legalize pot (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 06:29 PM PDT

In this photo taken May 13, 2009 a grower holds a marijuana plant being grown for medical purposes inside a greenhouse at a farm in Potter Valley, Calif. In the mountain forests along California's North Coast, refugees from San Francisco's Summer of Love have spent four decades hiding from the law as they tended some of the world's most fabled marijuana gardens. After all those years, several statewide efforts to legalize marijuana could finally let those growers come out into the light. But at a community meeting in the heart of Northern California pot country on Tuesday, many growers said they were more worried about the cost of legalization to their bottom lines than about any federal raid. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)AP - California voters will decide whether to legalize recreational marijuana use for adults, after the secretary of state on Wednesday certified the initiative for the November ballot.

Healthcare changes headed back to House (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 12:36 AM PDT

President Obama gives a Reuters - A final package of changes to a landmark healthcare reform law must be approved again by the U.S. House of Representatives after the Senate parliamentarian struck two minor provisions on Thursday.

Netanyahu says progress made in U.S. Mideast talks (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 10:00 PM PDT

Women walk in front of the compound known as the Shepherd's Hotel in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of East Jerusalem March 24, 2010. Israel plans to build more Jewish homes on the compound, an Israeli official said on Wednesday, a day after talks between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Barack Obama. REUTERS/Ammar AwadReuters - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ended a troubled U.S. visit on Thursday, saying progress had been made toward settling a dispute with the White House over Jewish housing construction in occupied East Jerusalem.

EU leaders divided by Greek crisis before summit (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 10:32 PM PDT

A man walks in front of the temple of Zeus in Athens March 24, 2010. REUTERS/Yiorgos KarahalisReuters - European Union leaders hold what is likely to be a tense and difficult summit on Thursday, divided over how to help heavily indebted Greece and struggling to maintain confidence in the euro.

Ex-Madoff aide indicted for fraud, conspiracy (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 03:41 PM PDT

Daniel Bonventre, left, an accountant who worked for Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, exits Manhattan federal court Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010, in New York. Bonventre is charged with conspiracy, securities fraud and tax charges, and was also sued by the Securities and Exchange Commisssion, accused of falsifying records in order to disguise Madoff's fraud and illegally enrich himself. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano)Reuters - The former director of operations at Bernard Madoff's investment firm was indicted by a federal grand jury on securities fraud, conspiracy and other charges related to the largest Ponzi scheme on record.

North Korea trespasser on religious mission: activist (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 06:08 PM PDT

Officials from South Korean businesses that own real estate in North Korea's Mt. Kumgang resort, including Hyundai Asan, move to get through the customs, just south of the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas in Goseong, about 330 km (205 miles) northeast of Seoul March 25, 2010, before they go to the North. The officials left for the North on Thursday to cooperate with the North's planned investigation into South Korean-owned real estate assets in the North's Mt. Kumgang resort. North Korea said it would freeze all assets owned by South Korean companies in the resort if South Korean government would not resume the cross-border tourism, according to local media. Korean characters on sashes read,Reuters - A U.S. citizen who North Korea will put on trial for illegal entry crossed the border in support of a fellow American Christian missionary who was released last month after a similar transgression, an activist said.

U.S. plays down hopes for Afghan reconciliation (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 03:59 PM PDT

Reuters - Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Wednesday the timing was still not right for reconciliation with senior Afghan Taliban leaders, acknowledging military pressure had yet to weaken the group enough.

Florida jury awards $26.6 million to smoker's widow (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 03:06 PM PDT

Reuters - A Florida jury ordered R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris on Wednesday to pay $26.6 million to the widow of a longtime smoker who died of lung cancer, the latest verdict against cigarette makers in the "Engle progeny" lawsuits.

US health bill 'violation' means new vote (AFP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 12:55 AM PDT

US President Barack Obama, surrounded by lawmakers and guests, signs the healthcare bill. A procedural AFP - A procedural "violation" means historic US health care reform legislation will have to return to the House of Representatives for a new vote, a spokesman for a senior Democratic senator said.

Netanyahu returns home with US-Israeli spat unresolved (AFP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 11:54 PM PDT

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves as he takes the stage to address the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee in Washington. v(AFP/Nicholas Kamm)AFP - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was returning home Thursday having failed to resolve a bitter dispute with Washington over the construction of new Jewish settlements.
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